Competetive Computer Games

[higgmond]

@lxwarr30

Why not? As long as it’s not their only aspiration playing video games competitively has a lot of benefits. There are a lot of articles that show that gamers have above average speed when it comes to tasks that don’t have to do with games, but the same rate of correct outcomes. I also think (don’t know how old they are already) that in the next few decades we’ll start seeing it turn into more of a sporting event.

The likelihood of earning a decent living as a professional gamer is probably less than the likelihood of earning a decent living as a professional athlete. Aspiring to be a professional athlete at least has the side benefit of being physically active.

[rawraw]

@whatsyourgovt

@rawraw

I played Warcraft 2 and Diablo II. I was a beast at both. Actually my best “trade” was on Diablo II. I just had an economics class in high school about the requirements of money – one of which it is stable. I noticed the in game currency (290 poison charms or something) was disappearing randomly and knew that people would end up switching to a more stable item cuz of this . It so happened those charms were worth like 8 SOJ’s (a ring). So that seemed like the clear winner in terms of money. I liquidated all my characters, 290s, and items into SOJ. A month later it was two 290’s per SOJ and I was a made man. And I made an insane ROI which was able to equip 8 very powerful characters fully. And after that, i was untouchable!

my man, this is all i did was trade. remember wug?

The acronyms are very fuzzy at this point – I had to google 290 and SOJ before writing that up. But I loved trading more than the actual game play – I always thought it was amazing how those economies functioned just like “real” economies.

[Sweep_the_Leg]

On topic, GTA V released their online preview today. Looks god damn amazing. That whole game…gonna be sweet.

[comp_sci_kid]

Best trading was in Everquest, east commons market. You wanted to make a living that was the place to trade

[Ivan_Drago]

@Blake McCallister

Video games for the most part are for the socially inept dregs of society. These games where tools put on headsets and go on “raids” and collect gold and battle goblins are for complete losers. I cannot be more clear about this.

+1.

Have never been interested in being an elf/leprecon and obtaining 1003495th level

[bchad]

As a kid, I would blow my allowance repeatedly on video games in the arcades. I enjoyoed video games but never became a true “gamer,” and am just as happy about that.

As an adult, there are some games I like, but I don’t have the patience to do games that take hours and hours and hours to play. There are a few exceptions: I liked SimCIty in college, and later on I really enjoyed Age of Empires, and I sorta liked Call of Duty, but these were the exceptions rather than the rule. In any case, it was rare that I felt like carving out large segments of my day to play them, unless there was a major snowstorm on a weekend or something.

These days, I mostly enjoy a kind of asteroids-like game on my iPhone and Words with Friends and tend to play it when I’m on the subway.

[Sweep_the_Leg]

You know what would actually interest a lot of non-video game CFA-type people is EVE. I’ve never played it but it’s probably one of the most intriguing games to read about. On the surface it’s a game about guys in space fighting over resources, but it’s infinity deeper than that. The game is all about ecnomics and trying to screw people over with ponzi schemes with the occassional gigantic battle thrown in. The link below has a few good stories.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/28/eve-evolved-top-ten-ganks-scams-heists-and-events/

[lxwarr30]

@Sweep_the_Leg

You know what would actually interest a lot of non-video game CFA-type people is EVE. I’ve never played it but it’s probably one of the most intriguing games to read about. On the surface it’s a game about guys in space fighting over resources, but it’s infinity deeper than that. The game is all about ecnomics and trying to screw people over with ponzi schemes with the occassional gigantic battle thrown in. The link below has a few good stories.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/28/eve-evolved-top-ten-ganks-scams-heists-and-events/

Yea. I was reading the BBC and the front page had this about a guy who infiltrated an enemy guild and led them into a massive attack. Game sounded fun, but the graphics weren’t enough to intrigue me. I do like the complexity though.